Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Imagine you have a backpack with a granola bar buried at the bottom and a tenacious tiny dog who loves snacks. Even though the dog shouldn’t be able to reach that granola bar stored away carefully, it managed to open a zipper and snoop through the contents to eat the snack. From an IT environment standpoint, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are the backpack carrying sensitive – but appealing to attackers – data.

Illuminate 5.1.0 is now available, bringing substantial improvements to our compliance capabilities. This update represents a significant step forward, with NIST 800-53 as the cornerstone of our compliance framework. Let’s explore the key features and improvements implemented to support your organization’s security and compliance needs. Important Note: To run Illuminate 5.1.0, your environment must run Graylog 6.0 or higher.

Whether you’re a Halloween or comic con fan, dressing up as your favorite character is something you’ve probably done at least once in your life. As a kid, you were excited to put on that flimsy Batman mask and cape, thinking you looked just like the hero you saw on the movie screen. As an adult, getting or making the most move-accurate costume may allow other people to think that you are the actor in disguise.

In today’s cyber threat landscape, almost everyone is one bad day away from a security incident. While not every incident becomes a data breach, security teams need to be prepared for anything. Just like that one friend who has a spreadsheet to help them organize the minute tasks associated with a project, security teams need to have a prepared list of steps to take during an incident.

An Internet Protocol (IP) address is the digital equivalent of your home address. Your home has a unique identification number that gives information about your physical geographic location, like road, city, state, and country. An IP address provides similar information about the people and devices connected to a network.

Back in the early days of the internet, people looked forward to hearing that deep, robotic voice announcing “you’ve got mail!” Today, whether you like it or not, email is fundamental to personal and business communications. In 2022, people sent and received an estimated 333 billion emails daily, with the number expected to increase to 392.5 billion by 2026. Experiencing a security incident on your email server can interrupt business operations leading to lost revenue.

Managing vulnerabilities can feel like the end of the first act of Les Misérables as you sing to yourself, “one day more, another day another vulnerability.” Like Jean Valjean, you attempt to put up barricades to protect your environment from attackers exploiting these security weaknesses. Keeping pace with the number of vulnerabilities and threat actor activities becomes overwhelming, leaving you to feel outnumbered and outmanned.

Imagine that you have a snack you want to eat while watching a movie on a Friday night. You look in your kitchen, only to find the snack missing. Whether a roommate hid the snack or ate it, you no longer have access to it, disrupting your evening plans. This destructive behavior interrupts your weekend objectives, but it’s pretty low stakes overall.

Responding rapidly to cyber threats is a make-or-break capability in today’s high-stakes security environment. A missed alert can quickly escalate a minor incident into a major crisis, jeopardizing your organization’s critical assets and hard-earned reputation. A recent IBM study revealed that companies took an average of 237 days to identify a data breach in 2021 — an inexcusable delay that could invite catastrophic consequences. (Source: IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2022)